Your May to-do list

Winter? What winter? The weather has been a little crazy lately, but the reality is that May is nearly here, in all its proper-spring-y glory. Here's how to enjoy the month stylishly...

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Watch this: Peaky Blinders

The most sartorially accomplished of mobs returns to our screens this May with the third season of Peaky Blinders (it's on BBC One on May 5 — but we can watch it online, and on Netflix soon after). Over the past two seasons, Thomas Shelby (Cillian Murphy) and his band of criminal brothers have packed a serious sartorial punch with a strong array of shirts, three-piece suits and razor-sharp haircuts. Tune in for more '20s-style inspiration from the most stylish men around.

Picture: PR/BBC

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Listen to this: Skepta, Konnichiwa

He's got Drake on his label BBK, thrown all his Gucci in the trash and now Skepta is on the verge of releasing his new album, Konnichiwa (out May 6). The grime king and fashion aficionado's fourth record has been three years in the making and we've been promised the same gritty beats and matter-of-fact lyricism that's revitalized the grime genre recently — even Kanye and co. are taking notice.

Picture: Getty

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Read this: On A Good Day by Al Vandenberg

From boombox-wielding early hip-hoppers to eyeliner-smeared punks, Al Vandenberg's stark black-and-white street photographers capture the various style tribes and youth cultures of '70s and '80s London. Fifty of his simple, posed pics — an honest, earnest, occasionally funny glimpse into an era's sartorial preoccupations — are collected in On A Good Day (published by Stanley/Barker, May 19). This will be the ultimate way to refresh your style with some old-school inspiration.

Picture: Al Vandenberg

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Watch this: Everybody Wants Some!!

We've had to wait 13 years for Richard Linklater's "spiritual sequel" to his poignant, clever '70s-high-school-party odyssey Dazed and Confused — but the director shifts the action only four years forward, to 1980. Which means we aren't too far removed from the classic rock soundtrack and Texas-fried hippie styles of Dazed (a good thing), but get to see Linklater adding punk, disco and more to his impeccably curated retro youth culture brew. Excited? We'd add an extra ! to that title.